{"id":4886,"date":"2008-10-06T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/06\/barack-clinches-presidency-concede-john-concede\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T21:24:10","slug":"barack-clinches-presidency-concede-john-concede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4886","title":{"rendered":"Barack clinches presidency, Concede John, Concede!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read the following article<\/a>, and the thing that really hit me is that John McCain has still not conceded. He’s going to tear America apart. This is obviously over McCain, you’ve lost. Holding on now is NOT listening to the American people. He’s trying to get the “toss up states” Which I discussed in a previous entry to back him DESPITE the American people’s obvious support of Barack Obama. He’s asking McCain to work together with him to unite the party. You go Barack! Well put.<\/p>\n

Senator McCain, please concede…and work WITH Barack for a democratic win in the upcoming presidential election, PLEASE! Your people need you to support Barack now, and not ruin our future.<\/p>\n

McCain Should Concede<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

As I predicted, the mathematics are now clear<\/a>. Unless he wins Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Indiana, and Colorado, the electoral college race is over. The only way John McCain can save his legacy is to face reality and concede for the benefit of the nation. John has severely damaged his legacy by introducing smears into the race. John still has a political future as a Senator with a possible minority leader position. It is now time for Americans to unite.<\/p>\n

The Electoral College Battle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Like everyone here at Alas and elsewhere in lefty Blogsylvania, I\u2019ve been struggling to understand the actions of John McCain and his supporters as the electoral season winds down. After all, the math is the math: he can\u2019t win the nomination unless the Electoral College overturns the wishes of the voters. And it\u2019s been that way for quite a while now.<\/p>\n

And yet, he and his campaign staff and surrogates have offered one rationale after another about how he could actually pull it off. As Obama continues to pile up safe states, though, the rationales have become thinner and less credible.<\/p>\n

McCain’s Grim Scenario<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

If this campaign goes on much longer, what will be left of John McCain?<\/p>\n

A man uniformly described by his close friends as genuine, principled and sane has been reduced to citing Barach’s distant association with a man who committed crimes when Barack was seven as a reason to stay in the race — an argument that is ungenuine, unprincipled and insane. He vows to keep pushing, perhaps all the way to the election in November. What manner of disintegration is yet to come?<\/p>\n

It’s Time To Put Country First<\/strong><\/p>\n

The country can’t afford another month of being torn apart by a divisive and unnecessary political campaign — not when the math makes it clear that Barack has won. There is only one reason for John to not concede at this point, and that one reason is ego, nothing but ego. Ego and spite. And hubris as well.<\/p>\n

Concede, John, Concede!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read the following article, and the thing that really hit me is that John McCain has still not conceded. He’s going to tear America apart. This is obviously over McCain, you’ve lost. Holding on now is NOT listening … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}